Europe Cruise Reviews

Excellent cruise, all activities, personnel and organization on board was first rate. However, the Azamara home office is of no help, they give the wrong answers, they are disrespectful and there is a clear disconnect between the home office and the crew on the ship. Bad new ownership of Azamara!

Loved both Iceland and Greenland and doing it on a ship with happy people was an added benefit. Wouldn’t have missed it.

Great vacation, with a few issues, but definitely a bucket list trip. I recommend to everyone who want to visit some Europe at a glance to take this cruise.

Overall an excellent cruise. We really enjoyed it and met some nice people from all over the world. Food was good, drinks flowed often and we slept well.

Overall this is a good cruise on a an outdated ship. Food options could be improved as well as onboard entertainers.

It was on my bucket list going to Athens and seeing the islands! It was a good trip!

Our 14 year old loves Greek history so this was the perfect trip. Started in Rome and carried on to Delos and Ephesis. It was nice after the Greek history to go to Naples and visit the tunnels and have fresh pizza.

Wonderful cruise, wonderful staff, wonderful ports of call.

This is a small, very high service type of cruise experience. The crew really get to know you on these long cruises.

We had a wonderful experience and will definitely be booking again!

Worried they had no record of our prepaid services, your accounting not coordinated with their accounts

It was a beautiful life experience. I could recommend this for the summer season for families.

For this cruise we took our 5 grandchildren ages 11 - 20. Their parents came along, as well as our beloved aunt. The grandchildren have all stated how much they enjoyed the cruise which was our main desire for booking. We wanted them to experience some places in Europe with us before we are too old to travel. It was a short cruise, and we really missed the sea days where we could rest up, relax, and enjoy activities on the ship. It was sometimes difficult to navigate with 11 people and all the different personalities, but all things considered, an enjoyable experience.

Love the ports on this cruise, they were breathtaking

I expected to love this cruise. I expected more of an upscale experience. The food was very good, but not outstanding. I thought the "O" points that you could earn by participating in activities, then turn in at the end of the cruise for swag was really tacky. Maybe it's ok for a less upscale cruise, but I would have expected something not so tacky on Oceania. I also thought it was in poor taste for Oceania to take us to various merchants on the excursions. On one excursion, they took us to a rug merchant who was selling $10,000.00+ rugs. It was very uncomfortable. Also, one excursion took us to a ceramics shop. I do not appreciate a hard sell, or even a soft sell for objects I do not need. We figured Oceania was probably getting a commission and it was really tacky. I assumed the higher price of an Oceania cruise would insulate us from things I would expect on less expensive tours, but it didn't. On the ship, they were isolating people who caught covid, but did not notify guests of the number of people aboard with covid. Our next-door neighbor was theoretically isolated with covid. We figured that out when they were washing the walls in the hallway. My husband caught covid from them, but never once did they tell us our neighbors had covid. We had to figure it out based on their cleaning process. We felt that was irresponsible on their part not to have informed other passengers of covid aboard the ship. On the last day of the trip, they had to cancel our visit to Mykonos due to excessive wind and rough seas. They added some shipboard activities to compensate for the lost day on Myconos. One thing they added was Bingo. Then they had the audacity to charge passengers to play. I thought this was despicable and really tacky. For an upscale cruiseline to behave like this is inexcusable. Much of our disappointment with the cruise came from decisions like this. We have a very good time. The ship was lovely and the staff was amazing and outstanding, but for the price, we had expected more. Two months prior to the Oceania cruise, we went on a Viking Ocean cruise, which we felt was so much better, including better food. Also, if you choose not to buy a drink package on Viking, you still get free unlimited beer and wine with dinner. On Oceania, if you want beer and wine with dinner, it will cost you $40/day for the package, and if you want it at any time other than mealtime, which will also include spirits, the drink package will cost you $60/day. On Viking, for spirits and drinks at non-mealtimes, it's only $20/day. As travelers, we resent being "nickeled and dimed" every time we turn around

Great cruise with beautiful and unique ports! This was the first European cruise for me and my friend. While we didn't have as many interactions with other guests and there weren't many people in our age group, we had a great time. The food and service was amazing (shoutout to Vanja and Mariano!). Our cabin steward was great but we didn't have towel animals (didn't bother us). We loved being at ports every day and still had time some days to enjoy the pool deck or reading on our balcony. We didn't go to all of the shows because they didn't all interest us but the ones we went to were good. There wasn't quite as much participation in onboard events but we still enjoyed the ones we went to. Definitely try the indian food in the buffet and the caramel cheesecake at Cagneys!

This was a wonderful cruise on a brand new ship. The redesigned adult Solarium pool was fabulous, it is climate controlled with multiple pools and hot tubs. The new expanded Windjammer Buffet snd seating areas were a welcomed surprise.

I love cruises especially on a ship of this size. Most of the ports were wonderful and it is always so great to return from a long day to your lovely clean room to relax before dinner.

For the $8000 per person we paid for this cruise (cost of trip plus all the nickel and dime-ing that was done, including paying for drinks because we wanted a drink at happy hour, paying for excursions, etc) it was definitely not worth the price. We expected an up-scale cruise and it was run like a mass-market cruise. Also, we went on a 7-1/2 hour excur.sion that was supposed to include lunch. It didn't, and by the time we got back to the ship, the dining room was closed. Very disappointed with the way the cruise was run, everything was an additional cost. We paid extra for a "Concierge" room but all it gave you was a room you could go to for coffee and pastries. The Concierge was rarely in the room. It was an absurd waste of money. Oceania cancelled 2 ports of call and cancelled one of our excursions at another port, but didn't seem to care. Don't waste your money on their drink package. For $400 for a 9 day cruise, all you'll get is house wine and beer, but ONLY at lunch and dinner. For an additional $200 ($600 total) you will be able to drink at other times during the day. Viking Cruise Lines includes wine and beer at lunch and dinner at no additional cost. We purchased their Spirits package on Viking for a 15-day cruise for $279. I contacted Oceania after the cruise and the impression I got was that they couldn't care less that we were disappointed. They brushed off my all concerns. Because of the way we were treated, I will never go on another Oceania cruise again. They have a lot to learn about treating their customers right. I would have expected that kind of treatment on one of the mass-marketed cruise lines but never on Oceania. Several months before this trip, we cruised on Viking. They issued us a credit for future because they had to change a couple port-of-calls. Even though they gave us credit, they added other ports of call. All Oceania did was traveled slower to the next port of call so they could save fuel. Oceania allowed passengers with Covid to remain in their staterooms instead of moving them to a different section of the ship. The people in the stateroom next to ours (we had a shared alcove theirs) had covid. At first we were curious as to why they were getting room service at every meal, but when we saw staff members with hazmat suits, masks and gloves washing the wall outside their stateroom, we figured it out. Needless to say, my husband caught covid on the 7th day of the trip. Oceania NEVER notified us of the danger, and quite frankly, put our lives at risk. The food, though good, was nothing even close to their advertised "best food at sea." I thought the food on our Viking cruise was far superior. We had one outstanding dinner on the ship, but it was a $100 per person wine dinner. Other than that, the food was good, but not outstanding. Oceania needs to have a policy about unattended & unruly children. They scream in the pool area, do "cannonballs" as they jump in the pool, and splash water all over the place. They also congregate on the pool ladders and you have to constantly ask them to get out of the way so you can use the ladders or the steps to get out of the water. We were extremely disappointed with almost everything about Oceania, and for the price, we felt ripped off. We will never go on an Oceania cruise again.

Overall I did not like it. Signed for the stream internet for the whole cruise and the speed was quite bad. You could not stream any movie